Trump: Jeb Is "A Stiff Who You Wouldn't Hire In Private Enterprise"

Breitbart.com ^ | February 8, 2016 | Jeff Poor

[nclaurel]

Gang of 8 and his continued support of blanket amnesty. Plus Rubio hasn’t shown up for his job as senator too often. In case you missed it. Too inexperienced but talks a good story

[freeandfreezing]

...and the point is to have that registration data on file just in case of the unlikely event that something happens that requires a draft.

So presumably you are some kind of expert in the currency and accuracy of address information for young men, and yet you are apparently unaware of more accurate and current databases of the names, ages, and yes, even locations and mailing addresses of young men.

Lets just assume the hypothetical that for some reason the government suddenly needs a bunch of people to defend us. Of course, unlike wars 75 years ago the people you need actually need to be pretty skilled. Which is why the current military policy is to reject many applications with limited education. And why a database with little or no educational information is pretty useless.

So your strategy is to rely on a single paper form filed when people turned 18, when in reality the need may well be for educated 24 year old men and women.

Why don't you think about how you would actually find and communicate with young people in an emergency. I'd rather combine the existing social security database, and drivers license databases with data from Facebook and other similar sources than try to rely on the Selective Service database.

Oh, and did it ever enter your thoughts that maybe an equal protection lawsuit related to drafting only men would result in a court order to draft equally from both sexes? In that case I am sure you are convinced the Selective Service registration database would work just fine.

Of course in a real emergency, the entire concept of the Selective Service system depends on the mail to be working, and people not to be moving around. Needless to say in many emergency situations neither assumption is valid.

[Bruce Campbells Chin]

Oh, and did it ever enter your thoughts that maybe an equal protection lawsuit related to drafting only men would result in a court order to draft equally from both sexes?

Well, I suppose it did technically "enter my thoughts, but it would never happen.

What would happen if Rostker is overturned, which I think is likely, is that the Court would invalidated a male-only draft registration or actual draft. It would not, however, order the registering or drafting of women.

[freeandfreezing]

I agree that Rostker would be unlikely to be sustained given the decisions to allow women to participate in front line combat. And yes, the Court would not order a draft for women, but as you noted would invalidate the male-only draft.

So practically speaking, the idea of instituting a traditional style draft based on existing Selective Service registrations seems to me to be a waste of time and money.

I think a much better approach would be to scrap the Selective Service system, and instead focus on enhancing organizations and databases related to securing rapid assistance from already trained individuals.

For many of the kinds of emergencies we might face in the future, just having the names and mailing addresses of a bunch of young people won't be particularly helpful.